Native Stories Podcast

Imaikalani Kalahele on Contemporary Hawaiian Art (Part 2)

Sponsor: Hawaii Council for the Humanities

Sources: Imaikalani Kalahele

Voice: Imaikalani Kalahele and Noelani Arista and Lala Nuss

Date Recorded: May 14, 2018

Description:[Explicit Language](Part 2 of 2) Focused on the start of his activism and the beginning of Contemporary Art in Honolulu. Imaikalani Kalahele is a Kanaka Maoli (native Hawaiian) poet, artist, and musician whose work has appeared in anthologies of native Hawaiian literature, such as Mälama: Hawaiian Land and Water (1985), and in the journal ̒Ōiwi: A Native Hawaiian Journal. Kalahele’s book Kalahele (2002) collected his poetry and art in a polyphonic performance that mixed English, Hawaiian Creole, and his indigenous language.